You should have a /boot partition. That is what you boot from, not root. Do you have a separate /boot partition? mw On Wednesday 25 December 2002 01:23 pm, Justin Zygmont wrote: > On Wed, 25 Dec 2002, Mike Watson wrote: > > > --__--__-- > > > > > > Message: 5 > > > Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 15:45:15 -0500 (EST) > > > From: Justin Zygmont <jzygmont@solarflow.dyndns.org> > > > To: psyche-list@redhat.com > > > Subject: RAID 1 problem > > > Reply-To: psyche-list@redhat.com > > > > > > I have been testing a raid 1 installation and I have noticed that > > > only hda is actually bootable. I'm using / as the raid partition > > > and when I disconnect hda and try to boot from hdc, all i get is > > > a line saying GRUB and that's it. Both raid partitions are > > > active on each drive. > > > > First, where is your /BOOT partition? You should have one on each > > disk. Then, using Grub, make each disk bootable. Each /BOOT must > > have a Grub folder wih a Grub grub.conf. You should have > > partitioned each disk identically. That way you can use the same > > grub.conf. If you didn't, then each disk must have a gurb.conf > > configured to match the partition scheme of that disk. > > > > It worked for me. > > Is this really necessary, I tested a 7.3 install and each drive > worked on it's own easily when I tried to simulate a drive failure. > With 8.0 it doesn't look like it will do that for some reason, I can > still mount the second HD but cannot boot off of it. > > Can anyone on the list that was a software RAID 1 scheme similar to > mine ( /dev/md0 = / ) confirm that their system will boot off either > drive? > > thanks.. -- Registered Linux - 256979 NRA Life -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
